It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters.

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.

We watch movies about all sorts of things that we don't know anything about, but we do get caught up in the human drama.

Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work.

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

Don't let fear, or doubt creep in. Instead, let hope creep in. Start believing in yourself. Open your mind and heart to the possibilities.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry

Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.

For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator

Why is divorce so expensive? Because it's worth it!

A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?